The Troubadours of Knowledge: Passion and Invention in Management Education
Journal
Organization : the critical journal of organization, theory and society
ISSN
1350-5084
ISSN-Digital
1461-7323
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2007-05-01
Author(s)
Abstract
This article argues that current management education works primarily with an instrumental, reified and fragmented conception of knowledge that ignores the connection between knowing and passion. To propose a learning process that is less dispassionate and disembodied and that conceives of knowledge as invention, we first exemplify the current crises of (management) education and reflect on its implied concepts of knowledge and learning along Lyotard's principle of ‘performativity'. We further probe the relationship between passion and knowledge through Derrida's idea of the ‘unconditional university' and illustrate its merit for both critical reflection and affirmative invention. Instead of a nostalgic re-evocation of ancient pedagogies, we reflect critically upon the possibilities of a deconstruction-based pedagogy in contemporary management education and propose Serres' figure of the ‘troubadour of knowledge' as a conceptual persona that can guide us in developing learning practices that incorporate and combine the value of critique and invention.
Language
English
Keywords
management education
performativity
unconditionality
passion
invention
troubadour of knowledge
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Sage Publ.
Publisher place
London
Volume
14
Number
3
Start page
437
End page
461
Pages
25
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
30722
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